Dooil-easteitik g device



JAMES nnooknnnnnnr; or wrnrnnsnr, townnoon-rasrnnrne Dams Specification of Letters Patent Patented Nov. 23, 1920.

Application filedM ay 11, 1920. Serial No. 380,6?0.

To allwh-om it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES H. HooKnN- BERRY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of VVinterset, inthe county of Madison and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Door-Fastening Device, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a door fastening device of simple, durable and inexpensive construction, particularly adapted and designed for use on garage doors, barn doors and the like, and so constructed and arranged as to be capable of locking the door in closed position or for holding the door, when in open position, so I pair of hinged doors equipped with fasten ing devices embodying my invention, one.

of the doors being closed, and'the other open.

Fig. 2 shows anfinside view of .a door in open position; taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 shows a sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. l. i

In the accompanying drawings I have used the reference numeral 10 to indicate generally the frame member forming part of a building above a door opening.

Spaced below the frame member 10 IS the sill 11. The Wall of the building is indicated at 12.

The building wall is provided with a door opening-for which there are provided two outwardly opening doors 13. Since the doors and the fastening devices are of similar construction, I shall explain only one of them in detail.

Se ured to the frame member 10 on the inside of the building and above each door opening, is an upwardly opening U -shaped yoke 14,'the closed end of which projects below the frame member 10 and overlaps the lower part of the door when closed. The lower or closed part of the U-shaped yoke .14 has aportion 14* which projects downwardly'a short distance farther than the other part of the c'losedend ofsaid yoke.

Secured to the inside of the upper portion of the door 13 is an eye-bolt or'the like 15, which is so arranged that when the door is closed, the eye of the eye-bolt 15 projects substantlally through the yoke 14 as illustrated, for instance, in F 1g. 3.

Iprovide what I may call alockin'g rod 16 having at one end a ring 17 receivedin theeye of the bolt 15. When the door'is closed the' rod 16 hangs downwardly, as illustratedparticularly in Fig. 1. Near its lower end the rod 16 has aninwardly extending portion 18 forming a handle and terminating in a lateral extension 19 adapted to be projected through a keeper 20.

It will be noted that the handle portion 18 may be grasped for sliding the extension .19 out of the keeper 20, and thereuponthe door may be pushed open. When the door is pushed open, the rod 16 will be raised and-will slide through the yoke 14 until the handle member 18, which has generallythe shape of a horizontal opening U, en'gages i the yoke whereupon the fore part of the yoke will enterthe ll shaped handle'member 18 which will then be in downwardly opening position, as illustrated for instance in Fig. 2. This position of the rod 16 will be reached when the door is open, and the door will be held in opened positionuntil the rod 16 is raised to clear the Ushaped handle 18, with relation to the yoke 14.

It will be noted that the parts just described are near the top of the door when the door is open, and I will now describe the device for releasing the rod 16 from its last mentioned position.

Slidably mounted in yokes 21 for vertical reciprocation on the door 13 is an upright rod 22 having at its upper end a portion 23 extending inwardly from the door, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3.

Near its lower portion the rod 22 has a portion 24 bent to form a U-shaped handle opening toward the door. At its lower end the rod 22 has a portion 25 bent laterally to extend in both directions from the rod 22 for engaging the door and preventing rotation of the rod 22, and thereby maintain- ATENT" Y It'will'be seen that when the parts are in l the positionlast described, a door will be locked in its closed position.

ing the portion 23 in the right position for the operation about to be described.

Theportion 23 stands in such position, when the door is open and the rod 16 is in its upper position, as illustrated in the righthand part of Fig. 1, ,and in Fig. 2. The portion 23 stands just below the rod 16. If it is then desired to release the rod 16 from its engagement with the yoke 14 the handle 24 is grasped and the rod 22 is raised slightly causing the member 23 to engage the rod 16 and to raise it sufiiciently to cause the yoke 14 to clear the Ushaped handle portion 18. The door may then be readily swung to its closed position.

It willbe seen that-my device is of very simple and inexpensive construction; that it can be made without expensive machinery" or factory equlpment; that. it can be m-" stalled cheaply without the necessity for employing the most skilled labor, and that it has'few parts which are likely togetlout of order or wear out It will also benoted that the door can be thoroughly locked in its closed. position with my device, and can be unlocked very easily.

\Vhen thedoor is swung open the parts will automatically assume their position for holding the door in its open position until released therefrom.

1. In a device of the class described, a-

yoke in which a rod'may slide, a rod de-' 2; In adevice of the class described, the

combination of a wall having a door opening therein, a hinged upright door forsaid opening, an inverted U -shaped yoke securedto said wall above said opening and projecting downwardly to position overlapping said door when closed, a member secured to the upperpart of saiddoorhavingan eye, a rod pivotedtoisaid eye, having a U-shaped portionnear its-free end, and having also a lateral extension near its free end, a keeper on saiddoor. for coac'ting with said lateral extension when the door is closed, a vertically slidable rod mounted on said door for sliding movement, having at its upper enda portioniextending inwardly from said door, and at its lower end a portion extend ing laterally in both directions from said rod for engaging the door and preventing rotation of the rod, a handle on said last rod, said inward extending portion being adapted tostand below said first rod when the door is swung open and said first rod stands: in substantially horizontal position with its free end supported by said yoke, and held in position with relation to said yoke by said U-shaped member.

Des Moines, Iowa, April 23, 1920.

JAMES'H. HooKENBERnY. I 

